umstaetter Publishing was founded in February 2016 by Brigitta Umstätter. The first release in September was be the 10th Anniversary book of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, „Stadtarbeit. Ten Years of Design Featuring the City.“

The motto of the new publishing house – „Contemporary Books“ – stands for its programme regarding up-to-date topics, their context as well as the appearance of the publications.Before Brigitta Umstätter was managing & publishing director at Carl Gerold’s Sohn Verlag, which was closed at the end of 2015. The publications of Carl Gerold’s Sohn Verlag had been standard books dealing with relevant topics of history, culture and society, such as the Congress of Vienna (2014) or First World War (2013). Also Vienna and Europe and its new dimensions were main topics of the programme. Accompanying the exhibition „The Idea of Europe“, which 2015 took place at the original venues in the Federal Chancellery of Austria, a catalogue was published and the museum-shop at the Hofburg was equipped and run by Carl Gerold’s Sohn Verlag.

media experience & communicationsBrigitta Umstätter also has broad experience and know how in communications, media and digital strategies, working first as a TV-journalist for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF), then long-time as a member of the management board and unit manager for the advertising subsidiaries ORF-Enterprise and ORF-Enterprise Interactive. Thus she assembled a wide network in the triangle of media, advertising and economy.

2006 Brigitta Umstätter founded Umstätter Consulting and focused on Brand Strategies and Business Development. Among others Umstätter Consulting advised the project Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture, also providing the operational management of marketing and sponsoring. In conjunction with her consulting activities finally Brigitta Umstätter landed in the publishing business.